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The Genius Is in the Genesis: Demythologizing the Idea of Gould as Creative Outsider
No full textOfficial Book Description: Matter of North collects essays and source material related to Glenn Gould\u27s landmark 1967 radio documentary The Idea of North. The most famous product (other than his studio piano recordings) of Gould\u27s 1964 decision to abandon the concert stage for the recording studio, it combines Gould\u27s interests in the contrapuntal (by the simultaneous layering of speaking voices) with philosophy and a life-long fascination with the Canadian Arctic. Because the documentary is a multivalent work, the contributors approach the documentary from unique perspectives (sociological, philosophical, music-theoretical, ethnomusicological), each illuminating a salient aspect of the work. The source-material section includes for the first time the complete interview responses by Gould\u27s five participants, along with other important documentation
Identity in the Making Process: Antiracist Teaching in Graphic Design
No full textThis chapter describes antiracist teaching actions undertaken in an intermediate graphic design course. The project-based course already focused on engaging students in conceptual development and problem-solving processes in graphic design; antiracist practices were incorporated to support students to explore identity from the perspective of the designer, the client, and the audience of visual communication. Centering students’ own identities, the first project (a collaborative book project) scaffolded students learning about one another to build a sense of community and collaborate with a team and on form making (e.g., design layout, typography). The second project was a client project focused on audience identity. Through visual research, interviews, and client feedback, students learned more about the client\u27s needs and challenges to help develop a graphic design solution. Through the two projects, students learned how their own identity directly impacts their approach to visual communication and how to acknowledge their own assumptions and biases when considering audiences different from themselves. © 2026 selection and editorial matter, Jie Y. Park and Laurie Ross; individual chapters, the contributors
Déjà Viewed: Nation, Gender, and Genre in Bollywood Remakes of Hollywood Cinema
No full textSituates the remake as one of the primary responses to Bollywood\u27s globalization and corporatization. Focused on post-1990 Bollywood remakes of Hollywood films, Déjà Viewed tells a larger story of the rapidly changing Indian film industry in the wake of globalization and corporatization. It situates the remake as a gendered response to these changes, drawing on approaches from film theory, gender studies, and cultural studies. The book looks at films from a variety of genres and modes, including the Bollywood family film, romantic comedy, noir, and melodrama, and each film\u27s close analysis is accompanied by attention to concerns related to remake theory, such as homage, anxiety of influence, defamiliarization, and pastiche. Seeking to historicize how gender and genres become translated and transformed in the Bollywood remake, the book contributes to transnational understandings of gender and genre as media texts move across various borders-geographic, cinematic, economic, and aesthetic. © 2025 State University of New York. All rights reserved
Interconnected forms of violence of CAFOs and indigenous peoples\u27 rights in Yucatán
No full textConcentrated Animal Feeding Operations [CAFOs] have multiple social and environmental impacts that disproportionately affect indigenous and peasant communities in Latin America. Indigenous communities have been resisting this industry through different means, including counter-hegemonic litigation. The judicialization of these socio-environmental conflicts has been successful in some cases, as in Homún, Yucatan, with the suspension and cancellation of CAFOs. Framing the meat industry\u27s impacts as infringements on human rights, environmental rights, and the rights of nature provides opportunities for questioning the sector and promoting other forms of producing and (non) consuming meat. © The Editor and Contributors Severally 2025
Editorial: The development and evolution of larval nervous systems
No full textThroughout their development, animals of various taxa go through different larval stages, which have evolved adaptations to interact with specific environments. Larval nervous systems in particular experience strong selection pressures since they control crucial physiological and behavioral processes, especially in taxa with planktotrophic larvae that need to acquire food. Selection pressures also can vary across life history stages if there are differences in factors such as habitat, predation avoidance, and diet. There is evidence for this in the relationship of the larval nervous system to the adult nervous system, which can vary widely between species. Understanding the specific adaptations of larval nervous systems requires an understanding of basic developmental processes such as cell migration, proliferation, and differentiation. In several species, the larval stages are still understudied and many questions about the development, physiology, and morphology of their nervous systems remain unanswered. Furthermore, comparisons of larval nervous systems among different animal species can be highly useful for reconstructing how the nervous systems evolved under similar or different selection pressures
Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression: A Q methodology study among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Germany
No full textThe scarce political and social psychological research on the Kurdish–Turkish context primarily addresses intergroup relations and general perceptions of the conflict. Conversely, Kurds\u27 experiences of and beliefs about collective victimization in this context have not been examined much to date. The present study examines how diaspora Kurds (from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan) who came to Germany as refugees or immigrants make sense of their group\u27s experiences of collective victimization. Using Q methodology, an underutilized method that captures holistic, shared viewpoints on a given issue, we aimed to uncover the distinct viewpoints on Kurdish collective victimization in this community and contribute to the literature on collective victimization beliefs. Through purposive sampling, we recruited a diverse sample (N = 50). We identified three distinct viewpoints concerning the ingroup\u27s victimization: (1) a focus on the importance of ingroup cohesion rather than centering intergroup relations; (2) promoting positive intergroup relations through solidarity with other oppressed groups and structural attributions for the ingroup\u27s victimization; and (3) upholding the victimized ingroup\u27s honor by demanding justice and apology and supporting self-defense. Our findings indicate that Kurds\u27 understanding of their collective victimization goes beyond commonly studied collective victimization beliefs and that intergroup attitudes were less central than often assumed. © 2025 The Author(s). Political Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Society of Political Psychology
Temporal and spatial dynamics of urban heat in the City of Córdoba, Argentina
No full textIntroduction: Climate change is expected to exacerbate the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect in the coming decades by altering the structure and function of urban ecosystems and impacting human health. Methods: This research assesses the dynamics of the UHI effect in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, by analyzing temperature trends over the past 19 years. Urban areas were classified into five classes using satellite imagery. Monthly average daytime and nighttime MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST) were used to assess thermal differences across urban classes and temporal trends. Results: Daytime urban cooling occurred during the winter and heating during the summer, while at nighttime, the city experienced heating year-round. Over 19 years, urban areas presented the highest significant increase in temperature during nighttime, with some areas also experiencing increases during both day and night. Shrublands and crops also showed an increase in LST, particularly during nighttime. Increasing trends in LST during the night overlap with 89.2 % of the population, 90.5 % of households, and 87 % of households with unsatisfied basic needs. Discussion: The population of the city of Córdoba is highly exposed to the UHI, and the exposure is intensifying, potentially leading to heat-related diseases, spreading disease vectors such as mosquitoes, increasing energy and water consumption, and decreasing the overall quality of life for city dwellers. © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS
Life Stories of Garment Workers in India: Toward a Labor-Centric Labor Regimes Framework
No full textThis article contributes to a recent wave of literature formulating a renewed labor regimes framework as a means to understand the processes, relations, actors, and institutions through which conditions of work are produced under contemporary capitalism. This scholarship (partially) incorporates a feminist lens highlighting the centrality of social reproduction to the construction and persistence of particular labor regimes, and further calls for “labor-centric” analyses to counter a “capital-centric” tendency. We take up this call through analyzing the life stories of three garment workers in India, centering their own perspectives about their labor and motivations for entering and exiting particular labor regimes. We contribute to the labor regimes framework through: considering aspects of workers’ lives prior to and beyond the labor regime; demonstrating how workers’ actions can be viewed as an inherent critique of the labor regime; and using workers’ life stories as a methodological tool for constructing a more “labor-centric” analytical framework. Because working lives are as much shaped by the “needs and rhythms of social reproduction” as they are by relations of production, analyses of labor regimes can be enriched by going beyond their borders to attend to key moments and spaces in workers’ social reproductive trajectories
Representing Black Girl Magic with Contemporary Picture Books
No full textRepresenting Black Girl Magic with Contemporary Picture Books explores how contemporary, culturally relevant, and responsive picture books can provide educators with a chance to teach about race and racism in the classroom. A wave of recently published picture books by Black women authors have pushed back against negative beliefs, countered negative stereotypes, and celebrated the joy and magic of Black girls and their families. Featuring the voices and perspectives of over two dozen Black women writers, in this book, Raphael Rogers examines how and why these publications are changing the picture book and the educational landscape. With sections on classroom connections and discussion questions in every chapter, this book is ideal for courses on teaching children\u27s literature and diversity in children\u27s literature
Collective Action Under Repressive Conditions: Integration of Individual, Group, and Structural Level Research, Recommendations, and Reflections
Get PDFSocial scientific research from different traditions on collective action under repressive conditions is fragmented across different levels of analysis. The current paper takes a first step toward remedying this fragmentation by reviewing research findings on repression and collective action and organizing them into a multilevel framework. We describe the impact of repression on antecedents of collective action at the (a) individual level (including grievances, emotions, efficacy beliefs, politicized identity, and individual differences), (b) group level (including community cohesion and norms), and (c) structural level (including political opportunities and socioecological conditions). We then present an integrative summary reflecting on the broad patterns we observed in the literature. We conclude with policy implications of this work, suggesting recommendations for activists to overcome repression, for authorities to foster pluralist political participation while maintaining stability, and for researchers to further advance knowledge on repression and collective action. © 2025 The Author(s). Social Issues and Policy Review published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues